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INDUSTRY • REGIONAL HISTORY

Scene Around Tropic profiiles an amazing image from the Tropical North

Q&A How did you achieve that but at the same time, it was also very
with photographic artist ethereal effect? This is only a detail enjoyable because I was dealing
Catherine Nelson from a much larger work, with photos from such a beautiful
Kuku Yalanji : Mountains to the Sea, part of the world.
When and where? which is three metres long and I love this shot because... Of the
The photos which were used to comprised of hundreds of individual Kuku Yalanji boys in it. It was such
create the artwork detail were shot photos that I have edited, cut out a memorable experience. They have
in and around the Mossman River in and collaged together to create a so much energy and watching them
November 2019. I spent a week there new image. What I do is like a kind jumping around the boulders and
gathering material for the large- of ‘painting’ with photographs. rocks so confidently and joyfully
scale artworks that Baillie Lodges Challenges? To create such detailed was wonderful.
have commissioned me to do for work is always very intensive and
Silky Oaks. time consuming. It is challenging MORE: catherinenelson.com

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